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Canadian Pacific’s free public event will feature a concert by pop-turned-country star Sheryl Crow, the main attraction of family-friendly festivities celebrating 15 years of the Holiday Train food shelf fundraiser.

Administrative Law Judge Barbara Case on Friday ruled that there was no probable cause to believe Committee for VOTE improperly reported its finances and use of a Woodbury law office for mail and meetings.

A tanker truck rolled near the St. Paul Park refinery Wednesday morning, leaking gasoline into a nearby storm sewer and holding pond and forcing temporary street and railroad closures. The semitrailer rolled onto its side and leaked gas from the tanker into a storm sewer on St. Paul Park Road near Summit Avenue, according to St. Paul Park police. The truck is owned by St. Paul Park Refinery LLC, which operates the nearby oil refinery.

South Washington County voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly renewed a District 833 operating levy and voted themselves a tax increase to boost local school funding while also rejecting a land acquisition bond by the slimmest of margins.

School District 833 is using combined polling precincts in the Tuesday, Nov. 5, election, so some voters' polling locations are different from where they cast ballots in 2012. To find your polling place for the Tuesday vote, go to the Minnesota Secretary of State's poll finder . Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

A day before voters settle the District 833 levy measures, Judge Barbara Case of the Office of Administrative Hearings on Monday heard arguments from the Woodbury resident who filed the complaint against Committee for VOTE and from the group’s attorney.

Washington County SWAT team attempted a warrant arrest Tuesday in St. Paul Park. The county's Special Response Team, armed and wearing protective gear, went to a home in the 1700 block of Dayton Avenue before noon to attempt to arrest a male suspect at the request of the St. Paul Police Department's homicide unit, Washington County sheriff Capt. Brian Mueller said Wednesday. The suspect was not located. -Scott Wente